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013 is a music venue in
Tilburg Tilburg () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant. With a population of 22 ...
, the
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. The venue opened in 1998 and replaced the ''Noorderligt'', the ''Bat Cave'' and the ''MuziekKantenWinkel''. 013 is the largest popular music venue in the southern Netherlands. There are two concert halls of which the "Main Stage" (formerly ''Jupiler Zaal'' and ''Dommelsch Zaal'') is the largest, with a capacity of 3,000 attendees. The smaller stage has a capacity of 700 attendees. The name of the venue is based on the
area code A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints. Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, rea ...
of Tilburg. In August 2011, the director of 013, Guus van Hove, died of heat exposure in the Californian
Joshua Tree National Park Joshua Tree National Park is a List of national parks of the United States, US National Park located in southeastern California, straddling north-central Riverside County, California, Riverside County and part of southern San Bernardino County, ...
, together with his girlfriend. Van Hove had told friends he planned to visit the site of U2's
The Joshua Tree ''The Joshua Tree'' is the fifth studio album by the Irish rock music, rock band U2. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 9 March 1987 by Island Records. In contrast to the ambient music, ambient experimentati ...
album cover, which they falsely assumed to be near the location where they died. 013 hosts the bigger acts at the annual music festivals Roadburn (
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festival), Incubate Festival and Neurotic Deathfest. Also, it was a home for
Ayreon Ayreon is a musical project by Dutch songwriter, singer, musician and record producer Arjen Anthony Lucassen. Ayreon's music is described as progressive rock, progressive metal and power metal sometimes combined with genres such as folk music, f ...
's live shows in 2017, 2019, and 2023, which gathered more than 9000 people from more than 50 countries.


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Music venues in the Netherlands Music venues completed in 1998 1998 establishments in the Netherlands Buildings and structures in Tilburg Music in Tilburg 20th-century architecture in the Netherlands {{netherlands-struct-stub